We Put Up With A Lot To

Creeds And Causal Systems Have Argued With Each Other For Millennia, And Even So We And Our Ancestors Have Managed To Live In A World Of Differing Opinions. Philosophical Disputes Don't Often Affect The Price Of Fish Or Wine.

If Every Nation Gets The Government It Deserves, Every Generation Writes The History Which Corresponds With Its View Of The World.

Few Cultures Have Not Produced The Idea That In Some Past Era The World Ran Better Than It Does Now.

Myth, Legend, And Ritual ... Function To Maintain A Status Quo. That Makes Them Singularly Bad In Coping With Change, Indeed Counterproductive, For Change Is The Enemy Of Myth.

I Admire People Who Are Suited To The Contemplative Life. They Can Sit Inside Themselves Like Honey In A Jar And Just Be.